MDDM23: The Green Pip

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, wasn't too far off, thanks ...

--- Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Howdy
> This passage seems to refer to un-requiteable sexual
> desire in an adolescent girl, a condition Mrs.
> Edgewise remembers experiencing herself. I went
> looking (as you fellows did) in the Shorter OED for
> some support for this, and found:
> 
> green
> derived from _giernan_ (Old English from
> Northumbrian region)
> v. to desire earnestly, yearn after
> 
> pip
> late Middle English
> Ill humour, bad temper, poor health
> phrase
> "have the pip" be depressed, despondent or unwell
> 
> therefore perhaps:
> "green pip" is to become _unwell with desire_

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